"Designer immigration"
 

contemporary Right thinkers on immigration may subscribe to the "ethno-economics" of people like Peter Brimelow, though some subscribe to an alternate line of thinking, dubbed "designer immigration," wherein "the selection of immigrants [proceeds] according to their economic utility, regardless of cultural background"
 
the term is coined by Ben Wattenberg (American Enterprise Institute) as early as 1990 but later used by thinkers like Fukuyama (another Leo Strauss student, recall)
 
Slobodian notes that this in no way represents "a broader conception of the human" (91)

> from Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (2024)

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> created September 7, 2026 at 10:14:57 AM


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